Égypte/Monde arabe

Égypte/Monde arabe. Revue annuelle. Revue de sciences sociales publiée au Caire par le Cedej. Elle s’adresse aussi bien au professionnel de la recherche qu’au public profane en quête de clés de lecture pour comprendre les tensions et les mutations qui travaillent le monde arabe et musulman contemporain et, notamment, l’Égypte.

  • Biancani Francesca, Sex Work in Colonial Egypt: Women, Modernity and the Global Economy

    vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]

    The absence of licensed brothels in today’s Cairo is haunted by the stories presented in Francesca Biancani’s monograph. Through an extensive archival work supported by an anthropological eye, she investigates a currently invisible phenomenon that was once a subject of many legal debates and...

  • The Afterlives of Cairenes: the Making of New Social Geographies from Elsewhere than Bulaq Abule’lla

    vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]

    Some major events change people’s lives, while everyday events constitute their living times. In this paper, I look at the afterlives of Maspero Triangle and Ramlet Bulaq where the residents were dispossessed through forced and negotiated evictions (Khalil 2019, 102), unfulfilled promises, and...

  • The Violence of Memory and Movement: Reading Cairo from its Ring Road

    vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]

    This paper explores the memory of construction and destruction on the Greater Cairo Ring Road, a 106-km road encircling Cairo and its periphery. Taking two novels, East of the Ring Road and Fleeing the Ring Road, as my interlocutors, I ask: how do the Ring Road’s literary narratives complement a...

  • The Three Decisions of Umm Bîjû: Walking in Suez and Seeing the Ghosts of 1967 War

    vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]

    Umm Bîjû was among the few people who decided not to leave Suez after the 1967 war when almost 70% of the inhabitants had to leave the city because of the war. During my fieldwork in November 2018, she decided to walk me around her neighborhood in Suez, al-Kassâra. This article follows three...

  • Lamenting Old Nubia Through Music: Between Past and Present, Egypt and the Diaspora

    vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]

    This paper focuses on the relationship between memory, music and space in the Nubian displaced villages, near Kom Ombo. The construction of the Aswan High Dam (1964) and the displacement of 113 000 Nubians has left them facing trauma of loss and sorrow. A new genre in Nubian music called aghânî...